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May 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, still seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Robert, no back on Saturday.
Close-in supporters of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he will never offer the vice presidential nomination to Senator Clinton for one overriding reason, and that is Michelle, my Bell Obama.
The Democrat frontrunner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer.
According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.
A footnote.
Support is growing in Democrat ranks for Ohio Governor Ted Strickland as vice president.
He would bring to the ticket maturity, experience, and moderation.
Everything Obama's not.
He's very popular in Ohio, a state Republicans must carry to elect Republicans.
So, I know Strickland, he has no foreign policy experience.
It's true, but Democrats don't care about foreign policy experience.
There won't be a need for foreign policy once they get rid of Bush because everybody's going to love us, and our respect in the world will be restored.
And there won't be a need for foreign policy because nobody's going to harm us.
Nobody's going to reach out and these problems only exist, Mr. Snerley, because we are hated because of George W. Bush.
We don't need any foreign policy.
Richard Holbrook will be there, handle whatever little problems come up.
Susan Estrich, in her column in Fox News, could Obama be another Dukakis.
It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election loss that might have won or been won against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a wimp who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting Dukakis as an out-of-touch liberal who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not to mention his supposedly unpatriotic wife.
Susan Estrich ran the Dukakis campaign.
She knows where of which she speaks.
She asks, could Obama be another Dukakis?
It isn't just Die Hard Clinton supporters who are pointing out the similarities, even some Obama backers who believe the nomination fight is over, see the possible parallels and are determined to avoid them or at least try.
Writes Ms. Estrich, I was there.
Dukakis was and is a friend of mine.
And so I can say that while the danger is certainly worth recognizing, Barack Obama is no Mike Dukakis.
Or at least he doesn't have to be.
That's confidence.
There is no question that the Republicans will try to do to Obama what they did to Dukakis, paint him as a liberal, out of touch with the values of average white Americans, so far left that he has left America.
Ammunition is there.
The most liberal voting record in the Senate.
The refusal to wear the flagpin.
And of course, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and so forth.
The question is, will John McCain bring any of this up?
Well, of course not.
No more than the Bad Willie Horton ad was done by the Bush for President Committee.
No, it was done by Renegade.
Jesse Helms-affiliated North Carolina Committee, the same kind of committee that was running Jeremiah Wright ads in last week's North Carolina primary.
Ads that, of course, didn't cost Obama anything with black voters, but may well have played some role in his losing the white vote in that state to Hillary Clinton by double digits.
Here's what this is about.
Let me translate this for you.
The talking points have been sent out.
This is the second article I have seen that tries to explain away Obama's elitist, unpatriotic liberalism as nothing more than a mean-spirited attack, racial attack, from Republicans.
Never mind the truthfulness of the charge.
The drive-bys will dismiss everything the Republicans say about Obama as having no merit simply because it's coming from the Republican attack machine, whatever the hell that is.
But the real point.
Here's the real point.
Susan Estrich, you know this.
You know you know this.
I know this and you know it in your heart and you may not ever be able to say it, but you know this.
Barack Obama's not even close to being as qualified to run for president as Dukakis was.
Dukakis was far more qualified, just in strict terms of experience.
Obama's not even in the same league as Dukakis.
Susan, you know this.
He's more like Mondal or McGovern.
This has got to grate on her.
This has to grate on her that people are out there saying that Obama could be the next Dukakis.
Because Dukakis was a huge loser.
You know, the Beatle Bailey picture with the helmet on, the Army helmet on in the tank.
The real question, I mean, if you, you're asking the wrong question out there, Libs, about Obama, will he be another Dukakis or will he be another McGovern?
The real question is, will he be another General David Dinkins, New York City's mayor for life?
You know, another elitist, incompetent, smooth-talking liberal that all the white people, all the white effete snobs, happen to love simply because his election made them feel better about themselves.
Well, got to give Dinkins his due.
He could play tennis.
But beyond, after you get past the tennis, and it was a disaster.
And that's what you need to ask yourselves.
Not is he another Dukakis.
Is he another Dinkins?
Because Dinkins got elected.
But what's New York got the show for it?
What did it lead to?
It went to a Republican mayor in New York City.
Back to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Terry McAuliffe appeared on two shows yesterday, Face the Nation and Meet the Press with Bob Schieffer.
First from Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer says, look at, is Mrs. Clinton now picturing herself as the candidate of working-class white people?
Is that what she meant to say?
What she was paraphrased was an Associated Press article, as you know.
But no, listen, she has reached out from the beginning of this campaign.
We've received 70-plus percent of the Latino vote in this country.
Her message has reached out to everybody.
Senator Obama has won 92% of the African-American vote.
Proudly so.
They're proud that Senator Obama is running.
People have put together different coalitions.
And her point is, I have an ability to go out.
I've won Ohio.
Obviously, a lot of the blue-collar working folks, working-class folks, have gone out and supported her if you look at the exit data.
But I hate the discussion of race or gender.
I think we ought to keep this to the issues.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, everybody's blaming the Republicans for bringing up race and so forth.
And here is the punk decrying race and gender being discussion items in the race when it's his campaign that started all this.
I mean, you go back.
It was the media.
You know, you go back a year ago.
It was the media talking about, is Obama black enough?
Is he authentic enough?
And I'll tell you, back then, the drive-bys were in the Hillary camp.
No question that was Clinton campaign-inspired.
No question.
But then there was this giant turnaround.
Now we go to meet the press.
Tim Russert talking to the punk.
Russert says, Bob Herbert, columnist New York Times, wrote this.
The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and superdelegates for the longest time.
To deliberately convey the idea that most working-class white people are unwilling to give an African-American candidate a fair hearing in a presidential election is a slur against whites.
First of all, Tim, as you know, she was quoting an AP story.
In fairness, she was quoting what had been written in the AP.
What Hillary was talking about is the coalitions that she has been able to put together that has allowed her to win Texas and Ohio.
A lot of working class folks have come out.
I'm not saying that Senator Obama can't win that at the end of the day.
But, you know, we have been both proud of what we have brought to this table.
As I say, 16.6 million versus 16.7 million.
It is very close.
But when she uses a phrase, hardworking Americans, white Americans, Mayor Willie Brown, San Francisco said, she's saying that white Americans are hardworking Americans.
A lot of African Americans took great offense at that.
Yeah.
Well, and that's not what she meant.
And she was quoting the AP story, and literally, nobody has worked harder, as you know, the API.
President did not say white Americans were hardworking Americans.
Those were her words.
Well, she was paraphrasing the AP story.
And Tim, listen, both Clintons have worked their whole life on civil rights issues.
Hillary, her entire life, has worked on issues, on education, on health care.
They both have been out there fighting hard.
This is the end of a long campaign.
Wait, wait.
She was quoting an AP story.
No, no, no.
She was paraphrasing the AP story.
This is just a drive-by media ace nailing a Clinton campaign official for injecting race in the campaign.
Now, I want to warn you, all this will be forgotten once the conventions have come and gone.
The fact that there was a racial war in the Democrat Party.
Well, as far as the drive-bys are concerned, it will be back to the formula.
All the racism is on the right side.
All the racism is with Republicans.
But we have the audiobites.
We have the great memory.
We have the great archives.
And we will not let this be forgotten.
One more from Meet the Press.
Russert then said, well, that white Americans remark drew a swift rebuke from some superdelegates and private dismay from several Democrat Party officials who said that they're concerned about reuniting this fractionalized party.
And you know what?
I can put up 30, 40 more superdelegates who will say, you know, talk about what the Clintons have done on the race issue.
First of all, I hate that even race is even in the we should not have it.
We shouldn't have race.
We shouldn't have gender.
We ought to talk about who can do the best job of uniting this country.
All day yesterday, on all these Sunday shows, it was race, race, race, race, and it was Democrat drive-by hosts bashing Democrat drive-by campaign consultants in the Clinton camp on race, race, race, race.
I'm not going to let people forget that the racial strife, that the racial discrimination, that the sexist discrimination was on full display for over a year in the Democrat Party.
Be right back after this.
All right.
Now, this is a little out of whack here, folks.
Another story on Obama's trip to Missouri and Limbaugh country.
This is the Washington Times, Christina Bellentoni.
Senator Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow.
He is going to be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, my hometown.
And they're calling this, well, they're not calling it a campaign stop.
It's not a campaign stop.
It says here that he is going to hold an economic roundtable in the city located near what's called Missouri's boot heel on the southeast corner.
Strongly Republican area, represented by Representative Joanne Emerson.
But the interesting thing here is that they say in this story in the Washington Times that Cape Girardeau's population is 72,000.
It's not.
Somebody needs to get a hold of the Washington Times and tell them the population there is 35,000.
It's not 72,000.
The longer this show goes, the bigger.
I mean, maybe more people have moved in there.
That could be what's happened, that a lot of people, like 30 more thousand people, moved in there since 12,000 noon Eastern today.
More interestingly, it's Limbaugh Country.
Cape Girardo is conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's hometown.
His brother, a lawyer and a cousin, a judge, still live there, and tourists can get a peek at old Limbaugh home.
Christine Bellentoni of Washington Times says, I also have family there.
9 a.m. update says an Obama aide says the Senate is still focused on winning votes and delegates in primary states.
We're also spending some time in battleground states going forward to make sure that voters know the real choices this fall.
So what is he doing in Cape Girard?
I mean, can we cut to an economic summit in Cape Girardeau where there are 35,000 people?
An economic summit with 100 people?
That's what the story is, 100 people in a closed setting.
Well, I know they're very important people here, but this is just Obama going to Cape Girardo shortly, right in the midst of Operation Chaos on the day that Hillary is going to have a landslide victory in West Virginia.
Here's David in Wheaton, Maryland.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
It's a great honor to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
Mightn't it be the perfect time to end Operation Chaos and initiate Operation Count the Votes to help the disenfranchised Democrats in both Michigan and Florida get their votes counted, as well as to stir up even more chaos.
We've got to keep this going because this media/slash Hollywood juggernaut is undermining our democracy like never before, as if they are absolutely helping on converting us to a socialist country, Rush.
They're on the opposite side of you on everything that you stand for, Rush, and you happen to stand on the side of the Constitution for everything.
Right now, would you be willing to just get out of your comfort zone, Rush, and unleash the power that we ditto heads are?
You could lead us to take our country back from this media.
David, it doesn't sound to me like you need leadership.
Sounds like you are a leader.
I'm fully up to it.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
But I have to tell you, you may not have had a chance to listen much last week, but I was on a roll last week about what the Democrat Party is doing to voters in Michigan and Illinois.
It is the biggest disenfranchisement of voters since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
This is Howard George Wallace Dean doing everything he can to disenfranchise voters, many of them minorities from two of the largest electoral states in the country.
And they are doing this on purpose because the bottom line is, the Democrats know this.
Barack Obama cannot win this nomination when less certain votes are not counted.
This from the party that wants to count every vote, they say.
This from the party that tried to disenfranchise absentee ballots from military personnel in the Florida 2000 recount.
Now they are prepared to screw Florida again.
Disenfranchise the Florida delegation, not seat the delegation, same thing in Michigan.
And there is no greater act of voting rights denial since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
Spent numerous hours on this last week.
This is all part of Operation Chaos.
Operation Chaos has not gone away and it will not go away.
Operation Chaos has long-term objectives here, which have been defined and set out numerous times.
We have telegraphed every move to the enemy.
The Northern Front, the Southern Front, the Eastern Front.
We've let them all know what's coming weeks in advance.
They have not been able to stop it.
Judy in Clarkston, Michigan, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I'm so happy to speak with you.
Well, thank you.
Nice to speak with you, too.
I'm calling back to the story of the article in the Sacramento paper you were discussing.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
The out-of-work liberal radio producer is upset.
Yes.
Right.
And my point at the time was that the reason those radio shows fail is because people don't have to hunt for liberal point of views.
They're thrown in our face constantly with the TV, newspapers, magazines, and that's why the television shows, Hollywood movies, national public radio, public television.
Liberalism's pervasive.
It's everywhere.
You're exactly right.
A good observation on your part, Judy.
Oh, I love you, Rush.
I've got to tell you one more thing.
Yeah.
You've heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Absolutely.
Well, my wish, before I die, Rush, even though I'm not dying yet, although I was raised on DDT and cigarettes, but someday I'm going to have a conversation with you.
I'll even smoke a cigar and we'll have an adult beverage.
That is my wish.
Well, that is very sweet.
So you've lived to your present age, and we're not going to ask.
You've lived to your present age, filled with DDT and smoking.
Correct.
Correct.
And my dad had a beautiful garden.
We lived on it.
In those, you know, those days, you lived on your garden.
You ate it year-round.
And we love DDT.
I love you, Judy.
I love you, too.
All right.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
You bet.
All right.
She's got a good point.
Liberalism's everywhere, but they can't make it on radio.
And it's also because they can't make it on radio.
Radio is more effective in all these other mediums.
That's what's got them bugged.
Hey, folks, you want to treat the drive-by media with me right now?
Want to participate in tweaking the drive-by media?
You are aware probably that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states.
You heard this.
And everybody chalked it.
Well, he's tired.
You know, if this is a Dan Quayle moment, I mean, Dan Quayle goes out there and misspells potato, and we still get jokes about it.
Barack Obama is going to go out and campaign in 57 states.
Well, he was just tired.
It's been such a long campaign.
He's been so many places.
He probably thinks there are 57 states.
Well, I have here a printout from a website called the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins.
Every year from 1999 to 2005, the organization of the Islamic Conference representing the 57 Islamic States presented a resolution to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights called Combating Deficit.
Yes, HR, get ready for the phone calls up there.
We're participating here in a tweak of the media.
Obama said there are he's going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic states.
There are 57 Islamic states.
Every year from 1999 to 2005, the organization of the Islamic Conference representing the 57 Islamic States.
This is from the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
And the title of the piece here is How the Islamic States Dominate the UN Human Rights Council.
And there are 57 of them.
So really, did Obama just lose his bearings?
Or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen?
Obama's 57 states, not just a simple gaffe.
He might have been thinking of the 57 Islamic states when he said he was going to campaign in all 57 states.
Can't wait till the drive-bys hear about this.
Alex in Lincoln, Nebraska, 19 years old.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Alex, testing one, two.
He's gone.
19-year-old kid from Lincoln.
His question, would oil be the same price if there were no Iraq?
Hmm.
Hmm.
It's an interesting question.
I wouldn't mind exploring that with him.
It'd be tough to take an event like that out of the marketplace.
Of course, you know, if is for children, there is an Iraq situation.
What?
Alex.
Oh, okay.
You put him up on the wrong line.
Okay.
Alex in Lincoln, Nebraska, 19 years.
Oh, you are there.
Hello, sir, Alex.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, how are you doing, Rush?
Very good.
Thank you.
Well, I heard you ask my question.
So, yeah, that's my question.
What would oil be these days if we weren't in Iraq with the U.S. and the Middle East?
Well, you know, there's so many.
First place, we can't know.
And I'm not trying to skirt your question.
We cannot know.
This is a, it's a great question you've asked because it's a teachable moment.
Okay.
We can't possibly know.
Just as if, let's say we had the ability, or let's say we thought we had the ability to steer hurricanes, but we've never really done it.
But we try.
We seed, let's say we got a hurricane headed for, oh, where do we want the hurricane to be going here?
Let's say the hurricane's headed to New York, and they want to steer it away from New York.
New Yorkers want it to hit Washington.
So they go out there and they seed the northwestern quadrant of the hurricane with tire bits, which is what some scientists think could steer the hurricane.
And let's say the hurricane actually turns.
And let's say the hurricane turns and hits Washington.
And all of a sudden we're like, wow, wow, we've actually learned to steer hurricanes.
Have we?
How do we know what would have happened if we hadn't seeded it?
We really don't know if these things will ever, ever work.
So by the same token, you can't go back and say, well, what if we weren't at war in Iraq?
What would the price of oil be?
It's a nice little theoretical exercise.
You'd have to say that maybe there'd be less bellicosity from Iran.
But see, I think, let me answer it this way.
Let's take the circumstance, yes, we're in Iraq, and that has really fired up the Saudis.
It has fired up the Iranians.
The Iranians are in the process of taking over Lebanon with the Syrians.
You know, people haven't talked about this because it's not on the radar, but there's a civil war.
About to lose Lebanon.
It's one of our chosen hope-for democracy.
We're about to lose it because Hezbollah, which is sponsored totally by Iran and Syria, are about to overrun it and claim it.
So we're going to lose another Middle Eastern state.
Now, some might say, well, would that have happened if we hadn't gone to Iraq?
Yes.
No question it would have.
Would Ahmad Dinizad still be rattling sabers if we weren't in Iraq?
Would Saddam's oil production facilities have remained in good repair and still putting out oil or not?
A lot of these things that we don't know.
Yeah.
Do you have a professor asking you this question?
I actually rush had thought of this just talking to my father, just kind of going dialogue and back and forth after we talked yesterday when you talked about oil dropping.
And I talked with him about it, and we were wondering if Saddam was still in power compared to now that he's out of power with the United States presence, like different presence in that region, since that's the main exporter of oil to the United States, since Brazil has yet to catch up with us, if I heard you correctly, the other day.
So that's basically, I did not have a professor tell me that I just got done with school final, thank the Lord.
So yeah.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm not sure I understood what you what did you say about who is the largest exporter to the Middle East right now is the main exporter of oil to the United States.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
No, Canada is.
Canada is.
Canada, by far.
The Middle East, Saudi Arabia is number two.
Mexico is number three.
And it's only recently that the Middle East became number two.
Mexico was number two.
It's only recently that the Middle East has become number three.
Okay, okay.
No, I'm lucky to be in Nebraska.
The better question to ask, Alex, I'm serious about this.
The better question to ask, would we need to be dependent on any of this oil from the Middle East if we would simply go get our own, such as in Alaska and off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast, and the Atlantic coast?
If we would go get our own oil, here's another if for you.
Would we be dependent on Middle Eastern oil?
If we had our own independent oil supply, would the Middle East have the power over us and be as afraid of us and be as concerned?
Not they'd actually be more afraid of us than they are now because they're actually trying to control us with our so-called dependence on it.
There's a lot of ifs that you can ask, but unfortunately, while they're a fun exercise to go through, you know, to play games and figure out what you think the world might look like if this hadn't happened or that hadn't happened, the more productive thing to do is to engage in reality and try to understand what it is about the current reality that is causing various things to happen so that they can be solved and dealt with.
What did you and your dad come up with?
We actually came up with nothing.
And you said, well, might as well give a Russia call today.
And I just got done meeting with one of my academic advisors.
So I was like, well, I'll see if I can call Rush today and see what Rush thinks.
Well, I'm honored.
I'm flattered.
You know, off top of my head, there's so many things.
If we weren't in Iraq, then you'd also have to figure out what else wouldn't be happening.
Yeah, see, that's what we talked about: is that since there's so much going on, there's so many factors that can deal with this that it's so hard to get a good idea of what could happen.
So that's one of the big things is there's so many different areas to think about.
It's kind of like the economy, right?
Well, let me give you the short answer based on your if.
Okay.
Given that if the only thing we're going to change about the last, say, five years is that we never went to Iraq, if that's the only thing in this equation we're going to take out of it, then the oil price would still be what it is.
Because the Middle East still hates Israel and we'd still be defending Israel one way or the other.
Very true.
The Iranians would still be nuking up, whether we're in Iraq or not.
We would still not be producing our own oil, whether we are in Iraq or not.
So a number of these factors that are roiling the markets would still be there.
I would go so far as to say some people might try to make the case that our presence in Iraq acts as a stabilizing agent on the real unpredictable volatility of that region.
Okay.
So, anyway, it's an interesting question.
I mean, normally I don't like if questions, but when you were talking about all and all kinds of people are trying to affix blame the United States and the Bush administration for the price of all, then I'm willing to tackle it to, in some way, meaningful way, deal with conventional wisdom that is dead wrong about who's causing the price of oil to spike and who's benefiting from it and so forth.
The world oil market, I mean, China would still be having its raging demand.
The India nation of India would still be having its raging demand.
Just because we've gone to Iraq doesn't mean that other events in the world would not have happened.
Hugo Chavez would still be insane.
Hugo Chavez would still be trying to consolidate socialist power through as much of South America as he could.
Fidel Castro would still be dead for all intents and purposes.
Hugo Chavez would be doing what he could to consolidate power there along with Daniel Ortega and his wife in Nicaragua.
We would still have liberal Democrats who would be opposing every attempt to become independent in the area of oil production, whether we're in Iraq or not.
So I would suggest to you, you know, in balance, the difference in the price of oil would be minuscule were we not there.
Back in just a second.
Hey, Alex in Lincoln, here's a couple more things, a couple more little things to consider.
Your question about would the price of oil be what it is if we got out of Iraq?
If we didn't get out of Iraq, guess who'd still be there?
Saddam Hussein.
And like Jeremiah Wright, Saddam Hussein is a man who prays 9-11.
And he was paying Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000 a pop to blow themselves up on buses in Israel.
He was sheltering terrorists.
What would the price of oil be if Saddam was still there?
Another if for you.
What would happen to the price of oil if we left Iraq shy of victory?
What would happen to the price of oil if we get out of there shy of victory?
And maybe a third thing to consider, Alex in Lincoln.
We didn't go to Iraq for oil.
Iraq has nothing to do with oil other than making sure the Iraqi oil fields remain functioning and don't end up in the hands of terrorists.
But we went there on the basis of national security and defeating terrorism.
It went to Iraq as part of the wall on terror.
We didn't go there for oil.
Happy to help.
Who's next?
Gordon, Columbus, Ohio, you're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Raj.
Afternoon, Gordon.
Buckeye dittos to you.
Appreciate that.
Hillary, I think, is being stabbed in the back by the women's movement.
And I think they're twisting the knife.
That would be an interesting picture.
Hillary being stabbed in the back by the women's movement.
Because, you know, I've always loved the women's movement when walking behind it.
So that's my picture of the women's movement, the women's movement stabbing Hillary in the back and then twisting it.
Why do you think this?
Well, because they're all headed for Obama.
And speaking of Obama, you remember the old Sanford and Sun show?
The old Sanford.
Oh, yeah, Elizabeth, this is a big one.
Yeah, well, doesn't Michelle kind of put you in mind of Aunt Esther?
Aunt Esther?
Yeah.
Michelle Obama.
I've never made that connection.
Oh, I know.
I've never made that connection.
But I haven't seen Sanford and Son in many, many moons.
Well, she sure puts me in mind of her.
Well, I can't even remember what Aunt Esther looks like now.
So I have no clue.
By the way, before we get out of here, I have to say something.
Those of you that watched the Players' Championship yesterday, throughout the weekend, but the final round yesterday with the playoffs between Paul Goidos and Sergio Garcia on the 17th hole.
Starting Saturday afternoon, I was watching this and I was pulling for Goidos because I've met him one time.
I played with Paul Goidos.
He was in my foursom at the AT ⁇ T National Pro-Am some years ago.
I'm thinking three or four, but his years run together, and I haven't been able to play the last two years.
So it might have been three years ago.
And he was, if you paid attention to his tournament yesterday, you heard all these talks about goidosisms, that his self-deprecating humor was just classic, and he had a perfect perspective on where he was.
43 years old, never won a tournament.
Well, he's won one.
Never had a 54-hole lead.
And he just, he became the sentimental favorite for all of these people that Hillary Clinton says don't like Barack Obama.
The white middle-class people, he was, because he's one of them.
He's just one of these journeymen.
He's worked at it for 30 years.
He's had some family problems.
He took time off from the tour to put the family problems back together.
He's been working very, very hard.
He won more money in one day yesterday, well, four days, than he has ever won in an entire year, maybe in his whole career, 30 years on the PGA tour, something like that, or 16 years.
I'm not sure what it was.
So he was everybody's sentimental favorite.
And I sort of felt bad for Sergio Garcia because everybody was pulling for Goidos to win.
Garcia was not, even when he won, you know, okay, great.
Yeah, you played well today.
You played better than anybody else.
But gee, we really wanted to see this other guy win, Goidos.
But he was just as friendly, as nice as he can be, was not having, like I wasn't.
He had had a couple of bad rounds for him.
And I would have taken him in a day.
I would have taken him any day.
But he kept cracking jokes at me, and I couldn't hear half of what he was saying.
And he was getting real frustrated because he's cracking political jokes.
He's trying to get my goat with Hillary jokes and this kind of thing.
And he even commented to a reporter some months ago that when we played together, he thought he had this great line.
And he shouted it at me when the crowd was going nuts and I couldn't hear what he said.
He said, hell, this is going to be no fun.
This guy can't even hear.
But he was just as good as he could be.
He's a nice guy.
And I was just pulling for him so much yesterday.
But he was very class act.
You know what he said when he lost?
He said, the right thing happened here.
Sergio Garcia played better than I did today.
The guy who made the better shots, made the shots, and played the course better won, and that's the way it ought to be.
So just the class act all the way around.
So congratulations, Paul.
Everybody was pulling for you and will continue to do so.
Be right back and wrap it up after this.
Before we get out of here, I want to offer a sincere, sincere salute to Operation Chaos, operatives, soldiers, and volunteers.
We've discussed quite a bit today, Mrs. Clinton's charge that people voting for her are racists because they're whites and don't like Obama.
The media has been trying to portray her remarks, hardworking white Americans, as a racist comment.
That's you.
That's you.
And I know this hasn't been easy to cross the aisle, vote for the Clintons in the first place, but now to be called racist.
Hang in there.
This will all be worth it.
I salute you.
You have my respect.
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